ex-vi ☆

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Description:
UTF8-friendly version of traditional vi

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 050325@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: text-editor vi terminal utf-8 development

Install: brew install ex-vi

About:
ex-vi is a modernized version of the classic UNIX vi text editor, updated to fully support UTF-8 character encoding. It provides the familiar modal editing interface of traditional vi while ensuring proper handling of international text. This makes it a lightweight and reliable choice for system administration and development on modern systems.

Key Features:

Full UTF-8 character encoding support
Classic vi interface and keybindings
Lightweight and fast performance
Improved compatibility with modern terminals

Use Cases:

Editing configuration files on servers
Authoring documents with international characters
Scripting and programming in a terminal environment

Alternatives:

vim – Vim is a highly extensible editor with many advanced features, while ex-vi focuses on being a minimal, UTF-8 compatible version of classic vi.
nvi – nvi is the BSD-licensed reimplementation of vi; ex-vi is another fork focused specifically on modernizing the original codebase for UTF-8.

License: BSD-4-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause-UC

Bottles available for: arm64_tahoe, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_ventura, arm64_monterey, sonoma, ventura, monterey, arm64_linux, x86_64_linux

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 13, 2025 3:41pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	4adad538